April 8th, 1994, the day Grunge has died, this thread is in honor of Kurt Cobain.
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Nirvana
For his 14th birthday, Cobain's uncle gave him the option of a guitar or a bicycle as a gift - Cobain chose the guitar. He started by learning a few covers, including "Louie Louie" and The Cars' "My Best Friend's Girl", and soon began working on his own songs. During high school, Cobain rarely found anyone with whom he could play music. While hanging out at the Melvins' practice space, he met Krist Novoselic, a fellow devotee of punk rock. Novoselic's mother owned a hair salon and Cobain and Novoselic would occasionally practice in the upstairs room. A few years later, Cobain tried to convince Novoselic to form a band with him by lending him a copy of a home demo recorded by Cobain's earlier band, Fecal Matter. After months of asking, Novoselic finally agreed to join Cobain, forming the beginnings of Nirvana.
With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind , Nirvana entered into the mainstream, popularizing a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge.. Nirvana was considered the "flagship band of Generation X", and frontman Cobain found himself anointed by the media as the generation's "spokesman." Cobain was uncomfortable with the attention he received, and placed his focus on the band's music, believing the band's message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, challenging the band's audience with its third studio album In Utero
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During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression, his fame and public image, as well as the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death have sometimes become a topic of fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, sold over twenty-five million albums in the United States alone, and over fifty million worldwide.
Kurt's Early Life
Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, at Grays Harbor Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington, to waitress Wendy Elizabeth Fradenburg and automotive mechanic Donald Leland Cobain. His father was of Irish and French ancestry, and his mother, was of Irish, German and English ancestry. Cobain's Irish ancestors migrated from County Tyrone of Northern Ireland in 1875. Further research found them to have been shoemakers, originally named Cobane, who came from the village of Inishatieve near Pomeroy, who settled in Canada, and then in Washington. Cobain had one younger sister named Kimberly, born on April 24, 1970.
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Cobain was raised by working-class parents, and his family had a musical background. His maternal uncle Chuck Fradenburg starred in a band called The Beachcombers, his Aunt Mari Earle played guitar and performed in bands throughout Grays Harbor County, and his great-uncle Delbert had a career as an Irish tenor; making an appearance in the 1930 film King of Jazz. Cobain was described as a happy, lively, and caring child. His talent as an artist was evident from an early age. His bedroom was described as having taken on the appearance of an art studio, where he would accurately draw his favorite characters from films and cartoons such as Aquaman, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Disney characters like Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Pluto. This enthusiasm was encouraged by his grandmother Iris Cobain, who was a professional artist herself. Cobain began developing an interest in music early in his life. According to his Aunt Mari, he began singing at two years old. At age four, Cobain began singing and playing the piano, writing a song about their trip to a local park. He would listen to artists like the Ramones and sing songs like Arlo Guthrie's "Motorcyle Song," The Beatles' "Hey Jude,"Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" and the theme song to The Monkees television show at a young age.
His Views:
Kurt was very against racists, sexists and homophobes, as the liner notes from Incesticide declared "if any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us-leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records" As obvious by the band's name, Kurt also belived in Buddhism
Death:
On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, the electrician reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found, addressed to Cobain's childhood imaginary friend "Boddah", that said in part, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now". A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were also found in his body. Cobain's body had been lying there for days; the coroner's report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.
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His Music:
Smells Like Teen Spirit: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg[/url]
Heart Shaped Box: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=n6P0SitRwy8&a=1p51VYE5DAI&playnext_from=ML[/url]
Come As You Are: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=vabnZ9-ex7o&a=1p51VYE5DAI&playnext_from=ML[/url]
These three tracks are his most loved songs by fans.
It is encouraged to tell how you learned or found out about Nirvana. My brother showed me them when I was 4 years old, and I have loved them ever since, R.I.P., Kurt
(yeah, i took this from wikipedia, but i did it to keep those who were oblivious to Kurt's existence informed.)
Hey, why haven't we heard any new music from Nirvana?
I heard Kurt just doesn't have the head for music anymore.
I think it's unfair to say that "grunge died" when he did. Plenty of other bands have contributed largely to the grunge scene, and to say that one genre rested on a head of one person is really dumb.
I find Nirvana extremely and annoyingly boring.
I find the story of Kurt Cobain even more-so.
[QUOTE=DarkNoctus;21221002]I find Nirvana extremely and annoyingly boring.
I find the story of Kurt Cobain even more-so.[/QUOTE]
may I suggest posting in a thread about kurt kobain and his story more
There were other members. One of which is cooler and better. Plus he's ALIVE. Kurt isnt a god, he was a drug fucked man who wrote simple music.
Well now people start to post, after a few hours no one payed any attention to this thread, and I didn't want to bump it forever, so I reposted it in GD, so more people would actually comment, I recommend going there.
[QUOTE=Monkeytracks;21221507]There were other members. One of which is cooler and better. Plus he's ALIVE. Kurt isnt a god, he was a drug fucked man who wrote simple music.[/QUOTE]
Yeah Krist Novoselic was a kickass motherfucker.
Wait, same thread posted twice?
Isnt that like bannable or something?
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[QUOTE=pie_is_good;21221540]Yeah Krist Novoselic was a kickass motherfucker.[/QUOTE]
That he is, All tall and some government job I think
[QUOTE=myng;21221539]Well now people start to post, after a few hours no one payed any attention to this thread, and I didn't want to bump it forever, so I reposted it in GD, so more people would actually comment, I recommend going there.[/QUOTE]
did you not read the "Music" in the subforums?
Foo Fighters aren't very good
[QUOTE=King_of_Town;21239539]Foo Fighters aren't very good[/QUOTE]
Their early stuff wasn't that bad.
A young Kurt playing bass,
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found that on Novoselic's website a while back
I liked Nevermind as an album but I couldn't really get into Nirvana's orginal stuff
To me it just seems as if it's over glorified simplicity and I couldn't really find anything intresting or thought provoking in the majority of their stuff.
My friend worships them though
I'm more a fan of In Utero
[QUOTE=Halp;21245140]A young Kurt playing bass,
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found that on Novoselic's website a while back[/QUOTE]
Up side down :downs:
I know he was left handed. But you cant really play a right handed guitar/bass left handed. The strings are around the wrong way >:(
I think it was a great band, to bad most people only know the stuff from Nevermind.
Also, what is that VampireFreaks.com add doing down there.
A good band
overrated though.
no one did this shit for layne
glorified pussy "had to struggle through his heroin addiction"
pussy
[QUOTE=Monkeytracks;21247119]Up side down :downs:
I know he was left handed. But you cant really play a right handed guitar/bass left handed. The strings are around the wrong way >:([/QUOTE]
Hey Jimi Hendrix called and he calls bullshit.
[QUOTE=Monkeytracks;21221507]There were other members. One of which is cooler and better. Plus he's ALIVE. Kurt isnt a god, he was a drug fucked man who wrote simple music.[/QUOTE]
Imo Dave Grohl is one of the most overrated musicians of all time.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;21260373]Imo Dave Grohl is one of the most overrated musicians of all time.[/QUOTE]
wut.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;21260373]Imo Dave Grohl is one of the most overrated musicians of all time.[/QUOTE]
Right, even though almost everyone in this thread had totally forgotten about him and instead hailed a druggie who committed suicide.
Who also had an imaginary friend.
Love Nirvana, maybe even more than Alice In Chains.
You don't even have to like Kurt to know that he's the most influential and iconic person in rock music since Jim Morrison, he pretty much single-handedly started a music revolution, for better or worse.
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It's hard for me to choose a favorite Nirvana album, but I'd probably say In Utero, it just felt much more refined and mature in pretty much every aspect.
[QUOTE=The Shape;21268493]Love Nirvana, maybe even more than Alice In Chains.
You don't even have to like Kurt to know that he's the most influential and iconic person in rock music since Jim Morrison, he pretty much single-handedly started a music revolution, for better or worse.
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Well he did bring alternative music to the mainstream masses.
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asses.
He was murdered by Courtney Love! The "suicide" story is the biggest insult to his life that could be made!
[QUOTE=nos217;21274287]He was murdered by Courtney Love! The "suicide" story is the biggest insult to his life that could be made![/QUOTE]
Get off your conspiracy theory son, and display me with some evidence.
[QUOTE=DarkNoctus;21258626]Hey Jimi Hendrix called and he calls bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Oh for god's sake, you take the strings out and restring it the other way. It's not like both of them play the strings upside down.
Look
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